Agent skill · Workflow & Productivity

assimilate-popular-workflows

This skill should be used when the user asks to "find skills in the wild", "assimilate popular workflows", "discover SKILL.md files in repos", "research external skills", "find workflow patterns", "survey the skill landscape", "what skills exist out there", or wants to investigate public repositories for extractable processes, babysitter plugins, and reusable procedural insights. Searches GitHub for SKILL.md files, classifies repos by archetype, and maintains structured research under docs/reference-repos/.

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Install
npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill assimilate-popular-workflows --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

Facts
Files in the skill folder: 2
SKILL.md size: 33 KB
Bundled scripts: none
Path: .claude/skills/assimilate-popular-workflows/SKILL.md
Open the folder on GitHub →
Where it comes from
Stars: 1,642
Language: JavaScript

Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.

From the SKILL.md

# Assimilate Popular Workflows Search public GitHub repositories for SKILL.md files, classify each repo by archetype, and maintain structured research documents under `docs/reference-repos/[org]/[repo-name]/`. The goal is not to copy skills verbatim but to extract transferable value: processes for the babysitter process library, babysitter marketplace plugin ideas, and implicit procedural knowledge that can be codified into babysitter JS processes. ### Process Library Placement Rules Extracted processes go into the babysitter process library (`library/`). Placement depends on scope: | What it is | Where it goes | Examples | |------------|---------------|---------| | Full generic dev methodology (entire workflow paradigm) | `methodologies/<name>/` | agile, gsd, tdd, scrum, kanban, waterfall | | Common cross-domain pattern (reusable across many specializations) | `specializations/shared/` | audit-pipeline, expert-advisory, progressive-disclosure | | Domain-specific process | `specializations/<domain>/` | security-compliance, devops-sre-platform, data-science-ml | **Important**: Do NOT place domain-specific processes in `methodologies/`. Only full, generic development methodologies be

What's inside
Steps it walks through
  1. Process Library Placement Rules
  2. Plugin Ideas = Babysitter Marketplace Plugins
  3. When to use
  4. Phase 1 -- Discovery
  5. Topic-based discovery
  6. Marketplace/registry discovery
  7. Filtering rules
  8. Enrichment
  9. Phase 2 -- Classification
  10. Classification signals
  11. Phase 3 -- Deep Research
  12. Directory layout
  13. research.md -- Unified research document
  14. Phase 4 -- Library Mapping and Re-extraction Analysis
Ships with 1 file
  • references/classification-heuristics.md
Commands it runs
gh search code "filename:SKILL.md" --json repository,path,url --limit 100
gh search code "description:" "filename:SKILL.md" --json repository,path,url --limit 100
Claude Code plugin skills specifically
gh search code "plugin.json" "skills" --json repository,path,url --limit 100
Search by topic tags (each is a separate query)
for topic in claude-code claude-skills mcp agentic-workflow agent-skills skills agent-harness ai-agents; do
gh search repos --topic "$topic" --stars=">50" --sort stars --limit 50 --json fullName,stargazersCount,description
done
Combined keyword + star searches for broader coverage
gh search repos "agent skill" --stars=">50" --sort stars --limit 50 --json fullName,stargazersCount,description
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About this skill
What does the assimilate-popular-workflows skill do?

This skill should be used when the user asks to "find skills in the wild", "assimilate popular workflows", "discover SKILL.md files in repos", "research external skills", "find workflow patterns", "survey the skill landscape", "what skills exist out there", or wants to investigate public repositories for extractable processes, babysitter plugins, and reusable procedural insights. Searches GitHub for SKILL.md files, classifies repos by archetype, and maintains structured research under docs/reference-repos/.

How do I install it?

Run `npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill assimilate-popular-workflows --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.

Where does this skill come from?

From a5c-ai/babysitter, a repository with 1,642 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.

Is a popular skill a good skill?

Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.

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